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| January 22, 2014 |
 Israel to start Arrow 3 production although key test still to come Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jan 21, 2013 - The Defense Ministry and Israel Aerospace Industries are so confident the Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile system will be able to destroy hostile missiles in space, they're reported to be planning to start production even before flight testing has been completed. And that includes the critical test of actually intercepting a target missile that will simulate an incoming Iranian Shehab 3b ... more |  |
 Iran's military nuclear bid 'will be stopped': Israel Jerusalem (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Iran's atomic drive "will be stopped", a day after an interim agreement bringing sanctions relief for Tehran took effect. "Iran's military nuclear programme must be stopped, and Iran's military nuclear programme will be stopped," Netanyahu said at a joint news conference with his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper, without saying h ... more |  |
 China plans new patrol in disputed South China Sea: media Beijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - China will set up new civilian patrols with a 5,000-tonne vessel in the disputed South China Sea, state-run media said on Tuesday, in another move that could inflame territorial disputes. Beijing claims much of the waters and has put a vast swathe of it under the administration of Sansha city, in the contested Paracel islands, which also hosts a military garrison. Local authorities will ... more |  |
Outside View: Iranian fund should compensate, not create more, victims Herndon, Va. (UPI) Jan 21, 2013 - On Feb. 1, the memory of the deaths of 241 U.S. military personnel slaughtered in the Oct. 23, 1983, Beirut bombing of the Marine Barracks will be dealt a slap in the face by an Obama administration that still doesn't get it. Barack Obama, never having served in uniform, fails to understand the insensitivity of a decision he made, to take effect Feb. 1 and the message it conveys to vict ... more |  |
 Iraq presses Qaeda offensive, UN warns on displaced Baghdad (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Iraqi forces pressed their attack on anti-government fighters holding parts of a city Tuesday as the UN warned of an "exponential rise" in displacement with 22,000 families having fled their homes. Violence elsewhere killed 10 people, bringing to 700 the number killed in nationwide unrest this month, fuelling fears Iraq is slipping back into the all-out conflict that left tens of thousands d ... more |  |
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Relocation of Marine's Okinawa base will go ahead Tokyo (UPI) Jan 21, 2013 - The Japanese government said the relocation of U.S. Marine base Futenma on Okinawa island to Nago city will go ahead despite opposition by the re-elected mayor of Nago. Susumu Inamine, 68, won re-election Sunday, dealing a blow to the central government's plans to build a replacement Marine air base in the environmentally sensitive Henoko district, Japan Times reported. "This ele ... more |  |
 Taiwan to slash armed forces by up to 20 percent Taipei (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Taiwan has said it plans to slash its armed forces by up to 20 percent from 215,000 over the next five years, in the latest sign of warming ties with former rival China. Defence Minister Yen Ming said the military would be cut to 170,000-190,000, but that defence capabilities would not be compromised in the project to build "smaller but leaner and more professional armed forces". "The pl ... more |  |
China rules out Xi and Abe meeting at Sochi Games Beijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - China Tuesday ruled out a meeting between President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the opening ceremony for the Sochi Winter Olympics, as a row between the Asian giants rumbles on. Beijing confirmed Monday that Xi would attend the Games, which open on February 7, while reports in Japan said last week that Abe was planning to go, although no details have been confirmed. ... more |  |
 ETA reaffirms commitment to cease-fire in internal document San Sebastian, Spain (UPI) Jan 21, 2013 - The Basque separatist terror group ETA has reaffirmed the abandonment of its armed campaign in a seized internal document published by a Spanish newspaper. In the memo, published Sunday by the Gara newspaper in San Sebastian, Spain, the terrorist group's executive committee remained committed to independence for Spain's Basque country and announced no moves to dissolve itself or to esta ... more |  |
 Air strike on Syria's Aleppo kills 10: NGO Beirut (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - A government air strike killed 10 people in a rebel-held neighbourhood of Syria's main northern city Aleppo on Tuesday, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that some fighters of the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had refused orders to withdraw from a battle with government troops to fight against rival rebels. "An air strik ... more |  |
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 Pakistan jet fighters kill 20 militants: officials Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Pakistani jet fighters and helicopter gunships began airstrikes in a northwestern tribal district Tuesday, killing more than 20 militants in retaliation for two recent bombings targeting the military, officials said. The bombardment came a day after a suicide attack in a market next to Pakistan's military headquarters that killed 13 people including eight soldiers and three children. On ... more |  |
Philippines, Muslim rebels upbeat in tackling last peace hurdle Manila (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - The Philippine government and Muslim rebels said Tuesday they were optimistic of clearing the final hurdle to ending a deadly decades-old rebellion, ahead of a fresh round of talks in Malaysia. The Kuala Lumpur negotiations on Wednesday will tackle a "normalisation" deal detailing how the rebels will hand over their weapons, and the creation of a security force to police what would be a Musl ... more |  |
Iraq Kurdish leader sees little gains at Syria conference Brussels (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani said Tuesday he expected very little from the Geneva II peace conference on Syria and warned of the dangers of extremist groups gaining ground. "The Geneva II conference will be the opportunity for the Syrian people to decide their own destiny but personally, I am not very optimistic," Barzani told the foreign affairs committee of the European Parliament. ... more |  |
 The right stuffing: Turkeys enlisted in terror fight Paris (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - The flappy skin on the turkey's face and throat could help save human lives in a terror attack or a chemical spill - or maybe even from cancer. For millennia, the plump fowl has used the wattle to show agitation or excitement by changing it from red to blue, or blue to white - an ability that has earned it the name "seven-faced bird" in Korean and Japanese. Intrigued by the colour tric ... more |  |
 Turkey rejects jailed ex-army chief's plea for release Ankara (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - A Turkish court rejected on Tuesday a request by former army chief Ilker Basbug, who was convicted last year in a mass trial over an alleged coup plot, to be released from jail. It was the first such ruling since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said this month he would not oppose the idea of possible retrials for hundreds of military officers jailed for plotting to topple his Islamic-lea ... more |  |
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Iraq: Jihadists fight off Maliki's army, hold onto western cities Fallujah, Iraq (UPI) Jan 21, 2013 - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is having a tough time trying to dislodge al-Qaida forces who hold much of the western cities of Fallujah and Ramadi because his army doesn't seem to be up to the task, despite emergency shipments of U.S. arms. At the same time, Sunni tribal leaders are shunning the Shiite premier's appeals to help him battle this new insurgency. The Sunnis' reactio ... more |  |
Iraq executes 26 men, including anti-Qaeda leader Baghdad (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Iraq on Tuesday announced the execution of 26 men convicted of "terrorism", including a high-profile anti-Qaeda militia commander whose arrest in 2009 prompted fierce street battles in Baghdad. The executions come despite widespread international condemnation of Iraq's use of capital punishment, and were announced barely a week after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki publicly rebuked Ban Ki-moon ... more |  |
 France military to up defences against 'cyber war' Lille, France (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - France will soon launch a 1.5-billion-euro ($2 billion) plan to defend itself against "cyber war" as a strategic priority, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Tuesday. The project, to be launched "in a few weeks", will be written into the French military budget over the next five years, Le Drian told a cyber-security forum in the northern city of Lille. "The scale needs to be change ... more |  |
Seven guerrillas killed in Colombia clash: military Bogota (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - Colombian army troops killed at least seven FARC guerrillas Tuesday in an operation in the central department of Tolima, the military said. The latest fighting comes after 14 guerrillas were reported killed over the weekend in an army air and ground assault on a rebel base in a rural area near the Venezuelan border. In a statement issued from Madrid, where he was on an official visit, Pr ... more |  |
 BlackBerry shares lifted by big Pentagon contract New York (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - BlackBerry shares leapt more than nine percent Tuesday as the troubled Canadian smartphone maker got a boost from news of contract to supply the US military with 80,000 new handsets. The stock gained 9.36 percent to end at $9.93, capping a rally of some 30 percent so far in 2014 and more than 60 percent from its lows last month, when the company reported a quarterly loss of more than $4 bill ... more |  |
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